engineering & popular culture: Electric Lighting
Since Edison's invention of a practical incandescent bulb in 1879, electric lighting has b...More
1 Aug 2008
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your engineering heritage: Information Age’s 60th Birthday
"Technological Revolutions," analogized by historians to political revolutions, have unfol...More
1 Jul 2008
engineering hall of fame: Edmond Halley, 1656 — 1742, The Man of Magnetism
To electrical engineers, it may come as a surprise that Edmond Halley was also one of the ...More
1 Jun 2008
your engineering heritage: Electricity — Even More Basic than We Knew
While historians and economists have written at length on how fundamental to modern societ...More
1 May 2008
your engineering heritage: Multimedia History
We live in the Information Age, with the World Wide Web permeating almost every aspect of ...More
1 Apr 2008
engineering hall of fame: Antonio Meucci, Telephone Inventor
On 15 June 2002, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution (H.R. 269) declaring Antonio Meucci...More
1 Mar 2008
engineering & pop culture: “they say the neon lights are bright…”
The word that the Broadway stagehands strike by Local One of the International Alliance of...More
1 Feb 2008
